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When academic departments clash over foundational approaches to technology surveys

Our department is attempting a comprehensive technology timeline for our curriculum but the computer science faculty want to start with algorithms, the historians insist on beginning with ancient tools, and the philosophy people want to question what counts as technology in the first place.

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Each discipline's claim to interpretive authority prevents the emergence of genuine interdisciplinary understanding.

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